What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Admiral Yi]

Dan Zak @MrDanZak
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Trump tells the Boy Scouts he's going to kill Obamacare; Boy Scouts respond with chants of "U-S-A! U-S-A!"

They must have cherry picked.  Boys Scouts I've known have not been retards.

[CountDeMoney]

They must have cherry picked.  Boys Scouts I've known have not been retards.

Boy Scouts are not retards.  The Boy Scouts of America getting worked up into a lather at their national jamboree by the Retard-in-Chief and assorted Cabinet guests, well...

Trump slams GOP senators, 'dishonest' press, Obama and Clinton in a rambling speech to national Boy Scouts Jamboree

Trump praised the Scouts for their pledges to be trustworthy and loyal, and encouraged them to "never quit" and to "do something you love." But repeatedly he went off script to make political points.

"We could use some more loyalty, I could tell you that," Trump said of Republicans in Congress. Within the first minute he attacked the press -- "fake news" -- twice and came back to the subject of "these dishonest people" later.

Of his predecessor, Trump interjected, "By the way, did President Obama ever come to a jamboree? The answer's no." When he vowed to kill Obamacare, the crowd chanted, "USA! USA!"

In one extended tangent that surely confused many Scouts, Trump described a long-ago cocktail party conversation with pioneering real estate developer William Levitt. Levitt was "a very successful man," Trump told the Scouts, but sold his business and "lost his momentum." Although Levitt is considered the architect of postwar American suburbia, he was also known for ensuring that properties were sold only to whites and non-Jews.

  It's like a rambling Bette Davis video will.
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/video-will/n9823?snl=1

[Ed Anger]

Trump Jugend

[Valmy]

Really? He made that kind of speech to the Boy Scouts?

[CountDeMoney]

Really? He made that kind of speech to the Boy Scouts?

Dude have you not watched the evening news?  It was a jamboree of Trump vomit 

[dps]

AFAIK his power to pardon is pretty much unlimited.

It doesn't cover impeachment, so it won't save his job or any other cabinet official (so, say, they could still kick Rex Tillerson out despite a presidential pardon).

Most of the analysis I've heard is:

1) Only for federal crimes, not for state,
2) Not for himself, and
3) Being considered an admission of guilt, may actually advance a case for obstruction of justice against The Don himself.

Accepting parole is an admission of guilt.  AFAIK, accepting a pardon is not.  In fact, the President can pardon people for crimes that they haven't even been charged with.

I believe you do have to accept guilt to accept a pardon and it removes 5th amendment protection. You have to testify against other folks involved if you take a pardon.

Uh, no. 

A pardon can be made conditionally, but it can also be made unconditionally.

[jimmy olsen]

Really? He made that kind of speech to the Boy Scouts?

I liked the Yacht story

[Ed Anger]

DPRK News Service @DPRK_News
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US attorney Jefferson Sessions promoted to Court Fool by Donald Trump. New duties include groveling, and being whipped to please his master.

[The Minsky Moment]

Really? He made that kind of speech to the Boy Scouts?

He isn't going to stop pissing on the country until the idiot 30% that back him no matter what stop insisting it's free lemonade.

[The Minsky Moment]

A pardon can be made conditionally, but it can also be made unconditionally.

If it's unconditional wouldn't it be the equivalent of immunity?  And hence a subpoena to compel testimony could be enforced without running afoul of the Fifth.

[derspiess]

[jimmy olsen]

Manafort has been subpoenaed.

[mongers]

This boy scout jamboree, not a new low from Trump, merely a different sort of low you could have never imagined happening.

[garbon]

Really? He made that kind of speech to the Boy Scouts?

He isn't going to stop pissing on the country until the idiot 30% that back him no matter what stop insisting it's free lemonade.

[DontSayBanana]

Uh, no. 

A pardon can be made conditionally, but it can also be made unconditionally.

Dude, no.

Burdick v. United States:
"There are substantial differences between legislative immunity and a pardon; the latter carries an imputation of guilt and acceptance of a confession of it, while the former is noncommittal, and tantamount to silence of the witness."

Acceptance of a pardon is by definition an admission of guilt: if there's no guilt, there's nothing to pardon.